like all change it will take some getting used to
but I think it will grow on the majority of you
cheers
Yeah. They say man is not an animal, so they'll adjust to anything. But that's not the point.
I'm sorry, but this front page is just a textbook display of "How not to build webpages 101". Where do I start...
* Horrible use of space; there are huge and unnecessary "dead spots", which don't help with readability and make the entire page look "untidy", if you wish.
* Horrible vertical spacing; gigantic blank spots on the side while having to do major scrolldown for half of the content;
* Unintuitive location of "shortcut" menus; if you have to scroll 50%+ of the page to get to a quick link menu, this kind of defeats the quick menu purpose to begin with.
I could gripe about the forum topics shortcut (I loved the feature), but I acknowledge that this is CB-only feature, so I'm not surprised the design has no real use for it.
In summary, this looks like something I could have designed on a weekend... when I was a freshman in college. It's a serious step back in all aspects. And it's probably even worse than the site we had back in 2004 when I started using CB on a regular basis.
Sorry Jeff, I know it's not your fault, but this piece of garbage is just indefensible (DISCLAIMER: I have a suspicion that the site may not be rendering correctly at the office machine, so I'll take a second look; but even if that's the case, it's disappointing we're served a half-baked product).